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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
In Season 9, episode 16 of Seinfeld, Elaine’s boyfriend David Puddy is a “Christian” and Elaine is an atheist. Throughout the episode, Elaine is frustrated with David, because of his apathy towards her spending an eternity in hell. In the final scene. David tells Elaine to steal the neighbor’s paper.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
In You'll Get Through This: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times, Max Lucado writes about a time his wife was transparent when someone asked how she was doing. He writes, “Years ago Denalyn battled a dark cloud of depression. Every day was gray. Her life was loud and busy—two kids in elementary school,…
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In the Paramount show Younger, a 40-year-old woman attempts to return to the book publishing industry after raising her daughter. Forced to find a job after learning she is getting a divorce, she is unable to find work after her absence from the industry for 15 years. Because of her young-looking face,…
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In 1950, a B-36 bomber carrying a training nuclear weapon crashed in the ocean off the western coast of Canada. The crew jettisoned the bomb before bailing out themselves. For over 60 years the Mark 4 bomb lay undiscovered on the ocean floor. That all changed when Sean Smyrichinsky may have inadvertently…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
Singer, songwriter, actor, and television personality Adam Levine recently married after the longtime professed bachelor had insisted that he would never get tie the knot. In writing his own vows however, he stumbled on a biblical truth that many a spouse should remember. He wrote and then vowed, “Behati,…
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A museum in Iowa was shocked to learn that an African leopard Tortoise they owned might have been stolen. They were more surprised a few days later, when they discovered that a misguided employees had later found the turtles and then lied to keep up the story about ti being stolen. Authorities said,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 759 views
The movie Titanic reveals something about human nature, some people follow the natural tendency to be selfish and others rise above it and are selfless. For example, as the ship was sinking, Cal Hockley, Rose’s selfish fiancé lied to her saying that he would make sure him and Jack, the boy she really…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 87 views
In the movie “Coming to America” An African Prince by the name of Prince Akeem (played by Eddie Murphy) and his sidekick-Seemi (Played by Arsenio Hall) came to America to find Akeem a Queen, and decided to live in Queens, NY. Akeem wanted to find an ordinary woman who loved him for more than his wealth…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 21 views
During the first week of January 2012 Yahoo! Sports ran two different stories about Tiger Wood’s divorce settlement. The first story reported that his ex-wife received a one hundred million dollar settlement in their divorce. After buying a twelve million dollar home in Florida, she had it bulldozed…
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John Demjanjuk recently died. Mr. Demjanjuk had quite a life. Born in the Ukraine, he began WWII in the Russian Army. The German Army captured and imprisoned him. After that, his life story is in dispute. He migrated to the US in 1952 and lived an upstanding American life until Israel accused him of…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
In Every Congregation Needs a Little Conflict, George Bullard writes, “Perceived truthful information is more powerful than truth. It is what people come to believe to be truth. It fits their preconceived notions. It fits their position on the conflict situation. They convince themselves and others that…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 54 views
In The Church Awakening: An Urgent Call for Renewal, Charles Swindoll writes, “Even in a culture marked by postmodernism and addicted to consumerism, the church doesn’t need gimmicks to attract people. Instead it needs biblical truth taught in an interesting manner and lived out in unguarded authenticity—in…
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Researchers have found that analyzing body language, eye movement, or other physical clues may indicate whether a person is telling the truth. A study from Israel suggests even handwriting style can reveal whether or not a person is being truthful. Researchers in Israel asked a group of volunteers to…
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DEATH The cover of Time magazine for June 22, 2009 has the photo of a hospital bed with the caption above in a bold red box, “How Not To End Up Here.” The subtitle at the bottom of the page says, “It’s All About Prevention.” The cover story is about avoiding getting sick, thus preventing the cost of…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 20 views
ABSOLUTE TRUTH According to the Barna Research Group,” only 9% of born again teens believe in moral absolutes and just 4% of the non-born again teens believe that there are moral absolutes.” —http://www.barna.org/cgi-bin/PageCategory.asp?CategoryID=37 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson John 14:6 NASB “Jesus…
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DIVISION In late December, the City Council of Murfreesboro, Tennessee voted to reinstall a memorial to the victims of September 11, 2001, which had been built by local firefighters and set up outside a city fire hall. The memorial which resembled the World Trade Center’s twin towers and included the…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
BREVITY/CROSS Tommy Smothers says, "When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished." —Reader's Digest, January, 2005, p. 73. Illustration by Jim L. Wilson I suppose the converse is true too. Powerful truth is often contained in very few words—truth like Jesus' final…
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PROCLAMATION By the time the new Miss America, Erika Harold won the title of Miss Illinois; she had presented the abstinence message to more than 14,000 young people. Since 1900 Miss America and the affiliated state pageants have required contestants to adopt an official “platform” issue. As Miss Illinois,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 37 views
GRACE AND TRUTH In the their book Influencer, the authors tell the story of King Rama IX of Thailand who performed an exceptional act of grace on his 60th birthday in 1988. He granted amnesty to over 30,000 prisoners, releasing them from jail. His intent was to be gracious, but removing discipline from…
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The Truth "The pathologist's report is in; it was positive." "What? It was what . . . what does that mean?" "Mr. Wilson, you have cancer." It was a call I'd been expecting. I knew there was a chance that the lump was cancerous, but I wasn't fully prepared to hear the "C" word. I was too young and too…
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Eternal Destiny Larry worked long, hard hours as the manager of a feedlot, but tried to find time to grow in his personal relationship with the Lord. After taking a four-week witnessing class at his church, he began to take a personal interest in one of his employees. One afternoon he came straight from…
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Compassion University of California at Santa Cruz isn't a typical college. Recently they made the national news when their students started protesting the administration's decision to start giving letter grades. Their bathrooms are co-ed., and their politics are liberal. A few weeks ago, a resident assistant…